On this week's Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss President Obama's Middle East speech, the heating up of the Republican presidential race, and the sexual escapades of prominent men like Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Here are some of the links and references mentioned during this week's show:

A New York Timespiece on President Obama's Middle East speech.A New York Timespiece on protests at the Israeli border this week. A New York Timespiece on recent U.S. sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six other senior officials.John's Slatepiece on the rough start to Newt Gingrich's presidential candidacy.A Huffington Postpiece on Mitt Romney's $10 million fundraising day.A Politicopiece on the GOP elite's 2012 savior: Indiana governor Mitch Daniels.A New York Timespiece on how whispers of Arnold Schwarzenegger's infidelity became and admission.A New York Timespiece on the arrest of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on charges of sexual assault.A Daily Mailpiece alleging that Nicolas Sarkozy warned DSK in 2007 that his behavior with women would be "passed under a magnifying glass" in America.Emily chatters on a new Galluppoll showing for the first time that the majority of Americans support same sex marriage.John chatters on the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders and a recent episode of PBS's American Experience chronicling their heroic ride.David chatters on the British television show The Thick of It, available in short segments on YouTube.The e-mail address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (E-mail may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)